Ethical Challenges

How do you compensate the physicians who provide services to a community in need while not going bankrupt?

Posted on: December 15, 2011

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Physicians, obviously, need to be paid for their time. They're not being compensated by insurance carriers, the federal government or state/local government, so they're looking to the hospital. But with the ever-rising number of uninsured patients, how do hospitals provide services to the community but not go bankrupt in the process?

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